Chapter 414: Sun Chunming wants to mint coins
Sun Yue personally cooked that night and arranged a hot pot, planning to entertain Han Derang and arrange him, after all, this trade union reform involves many places that require his cooperation.
As a result, he and Murong Yan sat awkwardly on the table and waited for nearly an hour.
After all, Han Derang is too busy, people are no better than Sun Yue, who is lazy and coaxing, and even the official position of the privy deputy envoy dares to do it, in addition to the introduction of commercial banknotes and salt, with Sun Chunming becoming a salt and iron envoy, and the more he does it, the more he does it, the more he does it, many of the Sun family's previous commercial layouts have all begun to move forward in great strides, and these things Sun Chunming and Sun Yue have no time to do it personally, Lao Cao and Lao Fang are obviously incompetent, and no one can really afford to take the lead except him.
Well, their family can be regarded as the ultimate in collusion between officials and businessmen.
This is very embarrassing, it's not that Sun Yue can't wait for half an hour, but his hot pot is ready, the copper pot is boiling with rich and sweet broth, and there are already cut lamb, venison, beef, and wild goose meat on the side, the key is that the two of them are still hungry.
What a sin.
Sun Yue and Murong Yan were so hungry that they couldn't help it, and they were embarrassed to wait while eating, so they could only helplessly start to gnaw on each other.
It seems even more embarrassing.
Fortunately, Sun Yue's face is relatively thick-skinned, and Murong Yan is not a person who can't wipe his face, and soon the two of them will be like nothing, and they will also ask Han Derang to punish him for drinking.
"I'm sorry, I'm too busy, I'm too busy."
Sun Yue asked, "What are you busy with?" I haven't had time to have a good chat, and it's rare for a family to be busy like ours. ”
Sun Chunming sighed with a special beep, and then said: "No way, what we carry on our shoulders is the trust of the imperial court and the official family, and behind us are the tens of millions of people in the entire Luoyang and even the entire Great Song Dynasty, for fear that there will be a little mistake in the work, I am in charge of the economy, it is related to the well-being of the lives of millions of ordinary people, no matter how small it is, it is a big thing in me, trembling, walking on thin ice, alas, difficult, sometimes I really want to resign from the government and abandon the print, buy a few acres of thin fields in the countryside, and live a simple life, didn't you also say, The worries of the world are worried. ”
Sun Yue said speechlessly: "Speak well, it's all family members, who are you pretending to beep." ”
Sun Chunming laughed and said: "Recently, I have been talking too much about this, and I am used to it." ”
Sun Chunming was a mixed organ in his last life, and what he was best at was singing high-pitched, and he had changed it in the past few years, because his set of serving the people was too stupid in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he didn't care about it, so he has basically changed it over the years, but now he has become a deputy minister, and the people around him are becoming more and more respectful to him, except for Zhao Kuangyin, there seems to be no one who is his leader, so he gets carried away and relapses.
After all, in ancient times, there was no entertainment, and women have been playing for so many years, both physically and psychologically, and they are a little powerless, so what fun is there besides pretending to beep?
As for resigning and returning to seclusion, it is like Ma's father repenting of Ali, and Brother Liu doesn't know what his wife and beauty mean.
Han Derang squeezed out a smile helplessly, although he was used to it, but seeing the daily life of the Sun family's father and son, he still couldn't accept it after receiving Confucianism since he was a child.
"I'm going to open a money bank, thanks to Brother Han, otherwise my brain would have exploded in annoyance."
Sun Yue was stunned for a moment, "So fast?" I thought it would take a year or two to prepare, but are you sure the economic foundation for this thing has arrived? With our family's financial resources, can we eat it? ”
"Why do we need to rely on our own financial resources to do this, and I use our own money to build a national credit system? How much money do I burn? There is no such way to give up the family for the country, a little bit, I plan to mint money first. ”
“………… Isn't it better to open a money bank, Dad, currency reform, it's easy to die, a little bit of a bad whole, it's a big mess in the world, and no one can keep our family at that time, are you sure the official family agreed? ”
"It's not that serious, I plan to mint silver coins, and it's a voluntary use, and it's not to scrap the copper coin, a few months ago, the Salt and Iron Division didn't do anything else, and almost collected the silver in the whole country, this thing was originally not much in circulation in the market, as long as the exchange ratio with the copper coin is determined, and ensure that the money can be exchanged, Han Ge'er has united all the wealthy merchants in Luoyang and Kaifeng, and will intervene in the matter of the money bank, and use it jointly, and the money bank will try to open one in each state."
Yes, Sun Yue understood, this is the meaning of using silver coins to temporarily replace flying tickets, as long as the basic value is there, the credit system is there, and it will not be too much of a problem to say that this thing is at a premium of seven or eighty percent.
You must know that at this time in the early Song Dynasty, silver was not the mainstream currency in the market, or even not currency at all, the vast majority of it was placed in the treasury at the bottom of the box, because there was almost no silver produced in the country, and almost all the silver before that was tributed to the Tang Dynasty by ethnic minorities, and a large amount of silver appeared on the market in the middle of the Song Dynasty from the trade with Japan.
So at least at this moment, in the early Song Dynasty, silver was a rare thing, and ninety percent of it was under the control of the imperial court, that is, under the control of the Salt and Iron Division, that is, under the control of Sun Chunming, which was also the confidence for him to do so.
As an aside, in fact, whether it is copper coins or gold and silver, the value of currency has never been determined according to the physical value, otherwise the faint kings of all dynasties will not loot the people by minting large and small coins.
Explain more, the economic policy of the entire Ming Dynasty, especially the monetary policy, is not a bad word can be summarized at all, it should be said that the Ming Dynasty has almost no monetary policy, paper money is basically dry to the point that it is cheaper than paper, and copper money can basically only be used as copper, other dynasties are occasionally out of a faint king to cast large and small money, the Ming Dynasty is every emperor is blind to cast.
In order to survive, the common people can only find another way to use other things, so this thing becomes currency, and it is used by the whole lump, only in this way, the court has no way to exploit them.
In fact, the most used currency on the market in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is the Xiban Yayingyang, that is, the currency of the Xiban Ya, seven cents of silver, and the people are very happy to use it, and they all feel that it is more convenient than the whole lump of silver, well, it is almost equivalent to giving the coinage right to others.
The credit of the imperial court is not as good as that of the red-haired widows, such a court has survived for more than two hundred years, and it can still be poor, seeing who scolds whom, I have to say that the scholars and doctors are still quite capable, miracles.
Far from it.
The benefits of minting silver coins are naturally many, at the national level, even if you don't consider the credit problem of the bank, you can at least get more than three percent of your wealth out of thin air, for Sun Chunming, this is his meritorious achievement, the most important thing is to continue to compete for power with Chu Zhaofu, if this matter becomes the so-called three envoys, it will basically be a joke.
Of course, the real ambition was that Sun Chunming wanted to establish an East India Company.